Re: GRUB (was: Re: Is there an SGI person in this list?)

[Jan Carlson <janc kubwa com>]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 09:07:07PM -0400, Joe Klemmer wrote:
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> On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Jean Francois Martinez wrote:
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> > One of the things making use of XFS more difficult is that the
> > superior booter (GRUB) does not support XFS.  This makes harder the
> > task of a distribution vendor willing to move to XFS (he will have to
> > ensure /boot is using ext2 or Reiser).  It also makes life harder for
> > people willing to move to XFS but unwilling to downgrade to LILO.
> 
> 	In what way is GRUB superior to LILO?  Why would I want to switch
> to GRUB?

1. You can edit the boot menu interactively during the boot process.
Saves mucho time if you have an error in the boot menu and nothing
will boot otherwise.

2. After you've edited the boot menu, you don't have to run lilo
or any other command to make it stick.

3. The grub config commands are clearer than lilo's.

4. Grub understands ext2 and vfat, etc. so you can look inside
your partitions and see how your kernel is actually named so
you can boot it, even if you have a typo in the grub menu.

5. The grub menu is optional.  You can boot without one,
just by typing some grub commands.

6. Etc, etc, etc, etc.

I was a sceptic.  Lilo works, why change I said.
Now I am a grub fan after trying it.  The docs could be better,
but they are already better than the lilo docs.  Remember when
you were green and first learning lilo tricks?

Well, grub is just better - not perfect, just nicer than lilo.
There is probably at least one lilo feature grub can't do yet,
but that will be fixed shortly.

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Jan Carlson                                 janc at kubwa dot com